Strawberry farming · California

Connell Ranch

Watsonville, CA · ~42 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Connell Ranch runs at 230% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Connell Ranch: 10.4 TCR = 230% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Connell Ranch safety composite

Connell Ranch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−9.4

2018→2019

Connell Ranch injury rate improved

Connell Ranch's TCR fell 9.4 from 15.1 in 2018 to 5.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 15.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=15.1 · 2019=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 230% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #112/124
  • PHOTO Rincon Pacific, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rincon Pacific, LLC (0.5 TCR gap)

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Connell Ranch in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Connell Ranch averages 10.4 TCR (230% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Connell Ranch TCR series: 2018=15.1 · 2019=5.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Connell Ranch falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #112 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

Connell Ranch (42 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Connell Ranch
Connell Ranch (42 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Connell Ranch has fewer employees than the Strawberry farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2019 5.6 5.6 2 0 0
2018 15.1 12.6 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Watsonville

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 111 employers in Watsonville, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Rincon Pacific, LLC 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wesco Ranch 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DeBernardi Bros 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Naumann Ranch 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Semper Solaris Construction,Inc. 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon Delivery Service Partner 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA - Richmond, 1401 Marina Way S Ste 240 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enrichment Center 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 2,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premiere Raspberries, LLC 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watsonville Community Hospital 632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC 550 FTE
NAT-TCR Hilldrup Companies - Greenville 156 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 2253-H4505 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Crowne Plaza Miami Airport 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR T.G. Lee - Orlando - Bumby - DTI 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE santee iga 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highland Lakes Casting, Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE DimcoGray Corporation 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE RBCO 63 - TX Buffalo Oxy Serv 90-63-01-90 42 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.